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    Twitter and Elon Musk

    in Politics and World Events

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    https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/elon-musk-banned-from-criticizing-twitter-under-terms-of-44b-buyout/
     

    Elon Musk banned from criticizing Twitter under terms of $44B buyout

    By Thomas Barrabi

    April 27, 2022 10:27am Updated

    Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter buyout agreement includes a bizarre clause banning him from tweeting criticism about the company – though the billionaire already appears to be testing the rule’s limits.

    An SEC filing published this week detailing the agreement notes Musk – identified in the document as “equity investor” – “shall be permitted to issue Tweets about the Merger or the transactions contemplated hereby so long as such Tweets do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives.”

    Current Twitter employees have expressed concern about Musk’s brash communication style on the platform, which he regularly uses to relay key information about his other firms, such as Tesla and SpaceX, and to poke fun at rivals such as Bill Gatesand Bernie Sanders.

    The clause was implemented following contentious negotiations between Twitter’s board of directors and Musk — who has vowed to re-center the platform to protect free speech.

    Musk publicly stated his belief that Twitter’s outgoing leadership wasn’t equipped to bring the company to his full potential, while the board initially enacted a “poison pill” provision to limit his leverage during buyout talks.

    While the provision is designed to prevent Musk from being critical of Twitter while the company is in limbo, the tech entrepreneur is still taking aim at some current staffers.

    On Tuesday evening, Musk tweeted that top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde’s decision to ban The Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election was “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”

    Musk’s jab came in response to a post from podcast host Saagar Enjeti, who shared a Politico article revealing Gadde broke down in tears while discussing the takeover.

    Musk also responded to another tweet from right-wing influencer Michael Cernovich, who shared a Washington Post article about Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker and claimed he had “facilitated fraud.”

    “Sounds pretty bad,” Musk said.

    Twitter did not immediately return a request for comment.

    The Twitter muzzle clause is one of several noteworthy provisions included in Musk’s agreement with the company’s board of directors.

    The SEC filing revealed that both Musk and Twitter are subject to a $1 billion breakup fee if they fail to follow the agreement’s terms. That fee would only apply under certain conditions, such as if Twitter accepted a different offer from a third party or if Musk’s financing falls through before the deal is complete.

    The document also provides clarity on how Twitter will handle employees’ stock holdings when the company goes private – with workers holding awards that have yet to vest given the option of being paid out in cash.

    New war in Europe, courtesy of Putin

    in Politics and World Events

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    I didn’t copy/paste the images here but you can see them there 

    https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/russians-burned-swastikas-into-victims-bodies-report/

    Russians burned swastikas into victims’ bodies, raped girls as young as 10: reports

    By Lee Brown

    April 5, 2022 9:46am Updated

    Russian soldiers have raped girls as young as 10 and pulled out Ukrainians’ tongues — while also burning swastikas into their victims’ bodies, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the United Nations Security Council that the Russians had committed “the most terrible war crimes” since World War Two and accused the invaders of unleashing terror on Ukrainians “just for their pleasure.”

    “They killed entire families —adults and children — and they tried to burn the bodies,” Zelensky said in a video address on Tuesday. “I am addressing you on behalf of the people who honor the memory of the deceased every single day.”

    He described how Russian forces targeted civilians in their cars and on the street, as well as in their own homes.

    “Some of them were shot on the streets, others were thrown into wells so they died there in suffering. They were killed in their apartments, their houses. Civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road — just for their pleasure,” he said.

    He also claimed the militants raped and killed Ukrainian women in front of their families.

    “They cut off limbs, slashed their throats… Their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not hear what they wanted to hear from them,” he said.

    “This is no different from other terrorists, such as Daesh,” Zelensky said, using an alternate name for ISIS. “Here it is done by a member of the United Nations Security Council.”

    Zelensky ended his address with a graphic video compilation showing bodies of Ukrainian civilians in Irpin and Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, in Dymerka outside of Chernihiv, and the port city of Mariupol.

    The disturbing footage showed some of the bodies buried in mass graves while others were simply strewn on the street or had apparently fallen from nearby bicycles. Some had obvious wounds, while others were burned or dismembered.

    “Speaking in my national capacity, we are appalled by what we have seen, and reiterate our solidarity with Ukraine,” Barbara Woodward, the UK’s ambassador to the UN and president of the Security Council said in response.

    Zelensky’s address came amid reports of further atrocities uncovered as Russians retreat from the north of Ukraine, including reports Russian soldiers have raped girls as young as 10 and burned swastikas into their victims’ bodies

    “Russian soldiers loot, rape and kill,” insisted Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian member of Parliament who is among those accusing Russia of genocide.

    “Children were found with their hands tied and shot dead. [Russian] soldiers killed them because they could!” tweeted the Kyiv-based politician among reports of hundreds massacred in the capital’s suburbs.

    Vasylenko said that “10-year-old girls” have been found with “vaginal and rectal tears” after being raped, while dead women have been found “with swastika shaped burns.”

    The official shared an image of one such Nazi symbol scarred into flesh, insisting it was found on the “tortured body of a raped and killed woman.”

    “I’m speechless. My mind is paralyzed with anger and fear and hatred,” she said. “Russian Men did this. And Russian mothers raised them. A nation of immoral criminals,” she wrote.

    “The ‘good’ Russians are burning their passports and no longer wish to be called Russian. The rest are Putin accomplices. And guilty of genocide of the Ukrainian nation,” she wrote.

    The dead include yet another mayor of a Kyiv suburb, this time in Hostomel — where the body was left out in public and rigged with explosives, the local archpriest told the Times of London.

    Archpriest Piotr Pavlenko said he rushed to retrieve the body of Mayor Yriy Pzylyko, his friend, when a turncoat Russian soldier warned him, “Don’t touch the body or it will explode and you’ll blow up with it.”

    Another member of parliament, Oleksandr Yurchenko, also told the UK paper that “women were raped, children were shot, people’s bodies were run over.”

    “We keep finding bodies,” the MP said, calling it “like a horror movie.”

    In neighboring Bucha, where disturbing images of bodies in the street emerged over the weekend, a local priest told the Telegraph that they had no choice but to use mass graves, where bodies remain in black trash bags.

    “We brought people here from the streets because the dogs were trying to eat the bodies,” Father Andriy Holovin told the outlet.

    “The hospital near here has run out of space. There was no space in the morgue. Now a lot of relatives are searching for their family members, but we couldn’t see a lot of the faces due to injuries.”

    The UK paper said it saw at least half a dozen civilian vehicles that crashed under heavy gunfire — some soaked in blood and at least one with a large sign reading “child” in Ukrainian.

    The horrific scenes have led many Western leaders to join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in decrying the atrocities as “genocide.”

    However, Russia continues to deny attacking civilians, claiming that the scenes are staged by Ukraine as propaganda to intensify opposition to the Kremlin’s bloody war.

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